These are the key facts; this what everyone must know; this is what you must all remember. The debate has been informed by discussions from cognitive science, such as the role of knowledge in underpinning reading and understanding (Willingham, 2010). OR would you build explicit Knowledge UPFRONT to gave them the chance to connect what the they observe in the experiments with the declarative knowledge you explained upfront??? Based on various ideas pulled from the blogs and books cited above, I would suggest there are four components: Knowledge provides a driving, underpinning philosophy:  The grammar of each subject is given high status; the specifics of what we want students to learn matter and the traditions of subject disciplines are respected. What should students learn about? A model for the learning process. School Ethos: • The overall belief of the school in the new curriculum, eg the faculty and community recognises the importance of the subject in the school curriculum. I build the sequence carefully, deliberately with a focus on practice and recall and schema-building. This involves him approaching a wide variety of texts and dealing with their ambiguities and uncertainties, engaging with moral dilemmas and in turn illustrating the craft of writing. Most VitalSource eBooks are available in a reflowable EPUB format which allows you to resize text to suit you and enables other accessibility features. This post by Tom Sherrington explains the principles with useful examples and links to some great follow-up reading. School leaders and leadership teams have a vital role in shaping the culture of a school and ensuring that effective policies, procedures and strategies are in place for responding to bullying and unacceptable behaviour. #shortpost. And, it will be the book I go back to when I start a new topic in English. But it’s not too important (is it?) It guides their learning. Some of this has been explored brilliantly in various blogs. – streamlinedsendco.com - June 13, 2018, Pingback: Teaching and Learning Bulletin – Issue 20 | Buckinghamshire Learning Trust - June 15, 2018, Pingback: First blog post – streamlinedsendco.com - June 16, 2018, Pingback: Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment | Class Teaching - June 19, 2018, Pingback: The Knowledge-Rich Curriculum – Thinking education - June 20, 2018, Pingback: Get Into Teaching. Well, yes I think it is to many teachers and in many schools –  especially once the cogscience combines with the idea of subject grammar. His publications help readers teach with excellence. Attention is also given to known misconceptions and there is an understanding of the instructional tools needed to move students from novice to expert in various subject domains. #shortpost, Can we talk sensibly about exams please. Along with plenty of others, I initially struggled to get my ahead around this idea. | teacherhead - December 12, 2018, Pingback: Blog of the Month – DGGS CPD - January 23, 2019, Pingback: What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? It’s way beyond some reductive idea of rote learning and regurgitating facts for no purpose. ( Log Out /  They would know who Julius Caesar was; they would know a set of dates, placing the Romans in time in relation to Jesus and 1066 and be able to identify the location of key Roman sites in the UK and Europe. They are provided with excellent study guides; more detailed than a knowledge organiser but stripped down from what might be in a text-book. Greetings Renate, Pingback: Blog of the week – Farnham Heath End School Teaching & Learning Hub - June 8, 2018, Pingback: A Rich Curriculum – Love Learning…. So you say you build tacit knowledge FIRST – by the first contact with the physics ? If I teach this through a  knowledge-rich approach I want to make sure that the knowledge builds securely. Dead, white men and more. ‘Making Meaning in English’ is paradigm shift in the teaching of English.’, ‘Knowing things, in Saul Bellow’s phrase, allows us to open the universe a little more. The curriculum process is to educate learners, develop skills and knowledge so they will be able to contribute within society. | teacherhead, 10 essential discussions to have in any teacher team. What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? Is Everyone Thinking? | teacherhead - July 17, 2019, Pingback: The Strait and Narrow Way of Curriculum Leadership (2) – Occam's Hairdryer - August 27, 2019, Pingback: Planning an interweaved Key Stage 3 curriculum – RE with Mrs McGee - October 29, 2019, Pingback: Equation-centric physics teaching – why I’m leaving it behind. They are embedded in the books. https://ragazzainglese.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/pub-quiz-or-published-what-are-the-aims-of-a-knowledge-rich-curriculum/, Reach Academy Feltham |Approach to Curriculum Design, My #rEDBrum talk: The Nature of School Science Knowledge, Knowledge in the classroom | Teaching it Real, On our #rEDDurrington presentation: Practical approaches to bringing research-informed practice to the classroom, the department and whole school | The Learning Profession, Knowledge and curriculum – Clio et cetera), Memory not memories – teaching for long term learning – primarytimerydotcom), https://www.bbc.com/education/clips/zrtk2hv, https://debrakidd.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/a-rich-curriculum/, https://clioetcetera.com/2018/06/12/is-it-more-important-to-understand-than-to-know/. Now we’ve nailed it. This book deserves a place on every English teacher’s bookshelf.’, Claire Hill, English Teacher, Trust Vice Principal and Author of Symbiosis: The Curriculum and the Classroom. Global message. Book Description. School Curriculum Basics School curriculum refers to a particular set of courses that a school or governing body designates, but may also refer to a variety of activities designed to foster education and meet the needs of a learning community. Young M (2011) The return to subjects: A sociological perspective on the UK Coalition government’s approach to the 14–19 curriculum. whether we did this before… some of us will; some won’t and that will depend on context, subject, phase…   The point is that we do it now. The idea is that students need to master the recall of basic science facts and concepts on the road to deep understanding and the ability to apply knowledge to problem solving. You’re right, it is new for most teachers and I think this is because of the indoctrination that we go through in initial teacher training. Read together, I think we’ve nailed it! Through literature we all must attempt to come to terms with and ‘try on’ a world lived differently, and as teachers, to help students as they start the lifelong process of defining how they see their world. Don’t all curricular teach knowledge? In this insightful book, David does just that. 29. Offline Computer – Download Bookshelf software to your desktop so you can view your eBooks with or without Internet access. Since posting this, Debra Kidd has extended/deepened the ideas here in this superb post. For both formats the functionality available will depend on how you access the ebook (via Bookshelf Online in your browser or via the Bookshelf app on your PC or mobile device). We want children to know specific things about plants and about The Amazon Rainforest, WWII, Romeo and Juliet and Climate Change. Blog collection all in one place. Reaching into the corners: 12 ways learning can be hard – and what to do about it. The principles it proposes go beyond English and make it an important read for anyone with curriculum responsibilities who is concerned with creating a proper curriculum. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.

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